They were the silent witnesses - the men and women in that world behind the screaming headlines. Fatal accident, murder and suicide were their daily routine, life and death their stock in trade.
The Silent Witnesses exploresthat twilight world of the city mortuary and those who inhabit it: Alex Hartley, dedicated pathologist whose obsession with his trade brought him danger-ously near to ruining his marriage; George Muir, well-Hoved local constable; Detective Inspector Ingram, struggling to maintain his balance and make a new life for himself after the trauma of a painful divorce; and Larry McGuire; senior mortuary attendant, and his young unhardened assistant, Jim, for whom it is merely a way of life.
Until, one day the body of a ten-year-old girl is wheeled into the mortuary - the victim of a brutal sex-murder...
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